Southwest University for Nationalities is located in Chengdu, a national historical and cultural city with the reputation of "Land of Abundance". It is a pearl of national higher education embedded in the southwest of the motherland.

The school covers an area of nearly 3000 mu. Chengdu has three campuses: Wuhou Campus, Airport Campus and Taipingyuan Campus. In Hongyuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, there is a high-tech research and demonstration base for ecological protection and animal husbandry in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of Southwest University for Nationalities, with a construction area of1136,000 square meters.

Cooperation and communication:

The school has established inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with more than 50 foreign universities and scientific research institutions, such as Munich University in Germany, McGill University in Canada, University of Missouri in the United States, Texas Tech University, University of California, San Diego, Hosei University in Japan, Gulong University, University of Chester in England, Krakow University of Economics in Poland, Macau University of Science and Technology and Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan.